Insulator.



W. G. GEE.

INSULATOR.

APPLICATION HLE'D SEPT. 29, 1914.

1,177,315. Patented Mar.'28,1916.

l/VVENTOR Warn 6. Gee

A TTOR/VEYS THE COLUMBIA PLANGGRAPN 60-, WASHINGTON, l7.

-UMTED A T F C -1 WARN GEORGE GEE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO W. A. SNAPP, OF DUNLAP, MISSOURI.

INSULATOR.

Application filed September 29, 1914. Serial No. 864,074.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVARN G. GEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, county of Jackson, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Insulator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My-invention relates to insulators to be formed of glass, or othernon-conducting material, and having means for securing the same on a pin or other support, and for engaging conductor wires.

The invention relates more particularly to an insulator in which pairs of retaining lugs are provided on the insulator for engaging the wires.

The prime object of the invention is to provide improved means for retaining a plurality of conductor wires, and whereby the engagement and disengagement of the wires are facilitated.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description follow- 7 ing.

Reference is bad to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference 1n- .dicate corresponding parts in all the views,

and in which:

Figure'l is a side elevation of an insulator formed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 Fig. 2: Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing a pair of the insulators in use.

In forming an insulator in accordance with my invention, the body 10 may be produced in glass. or other non-conducting material, and of the same general shape as insulators of this type. Suitable means. such as the socket 11. is provided to fasten the insulator on a vertical pin or other support A.

I produce on the exterior of the insulator between the upper and lower ends thereof, and preferably nearer to the upper end, a depressed zone 12, which may extend completely around the body 10. The depressed portion has a broad portion 13 to provide suiiicient area adjacent to the conductor engaging elements. At the broad depressed area 13 I produce on the insulator pairs of lugs 14 and 15. The lugs of a pair are spaced annularly, preferably about ninety degrees, and the lugs of one pair extend oppositely to the adjacent lugs of the opposite pair. Each lug terminates in a lateral arm -moval of the wires, the opening being common to the adjacent arms. The one opening therefore suflices for the two wires B and C, of which one is engaged by the upper pair of lugs 14 and the other is engaged by the lower pair of lugs 15. The widening of the depressed portion produces what may be termed shoulders 18 adjacent to each lug 14 and 15, as best seen in Figs. 1 and 4. By the described construction either wire B or C is entered in the described openings 17 and given suiiicient bend to engage the said wire behind the hook formation presented by the lateral arm 16, thereby disposing the wire between the lugs and the adjacent shoulders 18 on thebody.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An insulator body having means whereby to secure to it a support, the exterior of the body having a pair of retaining lugs to en age a conductor wire. the said lugs projecting toward each other, presenting ends directlv op osite to each other and spaced apart for the entrance and removal of a wire, there being a depression in the insulat r behind the lugs and communicat ng with the s ace between the lugs, to receive an inserted wire.

2. An insu ator having pairs of lu s. the l gs of a pair being spaced annularlv. and the lu s of one pair projecting toward the adiacent lu s of the op osite pair and spaced therefrom. the ins lator bodv presenting a depression at the s id pairs of lu s. and the spaces between the terminals of adia ent lu s leading tothe said depres sion and affording a restricted entrance and outlet ening common to the respective opposite lugs.

3. An insulator comp isin a bodv having pairs of lugs. the lugs of a air being s a ed annularly, and the lu s of one pair being disposed oppositely to the adjacent lugs of the other pair, the several lugs being spaced from the lateral surface of the body to accomirio'date' conductor Wires, and the; said opposite ad acent lugs being spaced and forming therebetween an opening common to the opposite lugs, for the entrance and removal of theconductor wires. p

4. An insulator comprising a body having pairs of lugs, the lugs ofa'p'air'being spacedplanes transverse tothe axis of the body,.

and'the arms of wpair lying in the sa'me' plane;

5. An insulator body having means whereby to secure a support,;the exterior of the body hav'ingla pair of retaining lugs to engage a condii'ctor Wire, the lugs being directly opposite to each other, their terminals being spaced from each other, and the said body presenting a depression adjacent to the lugs to receive the Wire, the body furmannere-"hswifig"summers annularly in line with the lugs and spaced from the latter, the lugs being formedwith lateral terminal armsdispose'd in' opposite directions and in alinement in a plane transverse t'o'the aXis of the'insulator. v 7

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspecification in'the' presence-of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

WVARN' GEORGE Witnesses: 3

J i A; KELLY, BEN GOLDENSTEIN.

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